CAN DO SO ON WYFF 4 DOT COM. NOW TO A CASE OF POISONED PLAYERS. POLICE SAY IT INVOLVED A TEAM'S DRINK.. DURING A MIDDLE SCHOOL RIVALRY GAME. WYFF NEWS FOUR'S MIKE MCCORMICK IS LIVE AND LOCAL IN GAFFNEY. MIKE.. WHAT HAPPENED? POLICE SAY A STUDENT POURED BLEACH.. INTO HIS COMPETITOR'S GATORAGE JUG. AND TONIGHT.. WE TALKED TO ONE MAN WHO'S CONNECTED TO THE SUSPECT.. AND A VICTIM. 31:41 "I could be going to a funeral right now. Let's just put it plain, because it could've killed him." THIS FATHER.. SAYS HIS SON IS LUCKY. THE 14-YEAR-OLD.. IS A BASKETBALL PLAYER AT GRANARD MIDDLE IN GAFFNEY. LAST WEEK.. THE TEAM PLAYED GAFFNEY MIDDLE. AND AFTER THE GAME.. THE TEEN WASN'T FEELING WELL. 27:50 "the next morning he usually eats breakfast. He didn't want breakfast, he said I didn't want to go to school daddy. I thought it was because they lost the game." HE THEN FOUND OUT.. IT HAD NOTHING TO DO WITH THE SCORE. 28:22 "I said, say what?" ACCORDING TO A POLICE REPORT.. A PLAYER ON THE GAFFNEY MIDDLE TEAM.. PUT BLEACH INTO THE GRANARD TEAM'S GATORADE. THE SUPERINTENDENT SAYS IT WAS A SEVEN GALLON JUG OF GATORADE.. AND THAT THE STUDENT ADMITTED TO ADDING A CAPFUL OF BLEACH TO IT. 28:46 "they're saying it was a teaspoon full. If I put a teaspoon of black paint in 7 gallons of white paint, you couldn't see the black paint." HIS SON.. DRANK FOUR CUPS OF THE TAINTED GATORADE. WHAT'S EVEN WORSE.. HE SAYS HIS GRANDSON IS THE ONE WHO DID IT. SO ACCORDING TO HIM.. HIS SON.. IS RELATED TO THE PLAYER WHO TRIED TO POISON HIM. 32:02 'I don't even know what was going through my grandson's mind. What in the world, trying to kill, just because of a game, that jealous because of a game, because of a basketball game." THE SUPERINTENDENT SAYS THE STUDENT RESPONSIBLE FOR THE INCIDENT.. AND SOME WITNESSES.. WERE DISCIPLINED. THE DEPARTMENT OF JUVENILE JUSTICE WILL DECIDE IF CHARGES SHOULD BE FILED. MIKE MCCORMICK, WYFF NEWS FOUR, LIVE IN GAFFNEY.

A Justice Department civil rights investigation has concluded that the Ferguson Police Department and the city's municipal court engaged in a "pattern and practice" of discrimination against African Americans.